Posts Tagged ‘git-annex’

This week has been filled with all sorts of fun and challenging stuff.

For one, I used Wireshark to (successfully) diagnose a problem for the first time

The problem was an overly restrictive iptables rule on the system I was trying to connect to, but boy did it feel good to identify and solve that problem on my own.

I also managed to squeeze in time to write scripts to two work buddies so that they didn’t need to perform overly repetitive and very error-prone tasks by hand. The one script even needed a little bit of Expect-scripting, which I’ve been aching to hack some more.

I also found out about vim‘s :e # (to try it out, open a file in vim, then :e someOtherFile followed by :e #)

I also found this post which makes a fair point: IFF you are going to rely on a web service (in other words, a SaaS you are probably better off getting hooked up with one charging money for it.

Not that I could ever conscionable recommend anyone using a SaaS as this is bound to lock you into dependence of that provider, but sure, I get that some (most?) would rather throw money at it than learning (learning is scary, and you don’t have the time right?) to set up your own service.

Furthermore, I can’t really decide whether the author is being disingenuous or illiterate in naming this stance an “anti-free-software movement”. It is unclear if s/he meant “anti-gratis-software movement” or if s/he is actually feeling threatened by free software. Had there been a comment field on that “blog” I probably would have spent the two minutes required to ask, but since there isn’t one, I won’t bother, and on pure principle, if I ever need a bookmarking-service, I’ll just make sure to stay clear of that one, just in case s/he actually was taking a jab against free software.

Yes, I am petty and vindictive at times, shit happens.

Whilst toying with the idea of modifying my homepage a bit, a site wide change, I realized that it might make a lot of sense to rewrite it so that it is, if not template-based, at least modularized. But I guess I’ll continue thinking about that before making any changes.

A funny thing I just thought of out of the blue the other day was that with some sites, like LinkedIn and probably Facebook and others, there are options for giving these services your email account username and password, so that they could log in, check your contact list, and hook you up with other people you know.

But I am pretty sure that most email providers license agreements state (no, I haven’t checked, but it would be foolish of these mail providers not to) that it would be a violation of said agreement for the user to disclose their account password to anyone else.

Then again, I don’t really understand people who would use those tools, but I guess there are even more people who wouldn’t understand why I chose not to…

A very interesting read about the Batman and the Joker. Those who know me can probably guess what character I voted for.

I’ve also been thinking about the prospect of storing binaries in some sort of version control, mostly because I have a friend who is into game development/modding, and doing so without version control. And that has bitten him in the ass more than once now.

And since I am nowadays a git convert I naturally started looking there, and found this, which lead me, among other places, here. Haven’t tried it yet, but it is definitively an interesting idea.

And now that I have begun working with Wireshark, tcpdump seems to be a good next step.